Mysterious Universe

The 1860s story about the ‘meteorite’ with hieroglyphics reminds me of Kecksburg.

There’s also a weird anecdote included in the book Captured! written by Friedman and Marden, where it’s reported that back when Betty was trying some ‘psycho-physic’ experiments to establish contact with her alien abductors, one day she and Barney found a weird huge hailstone placed right in the middle of the breakfast table. The large piece of ice seemed to contain some type of markings of hieroglyphics. 

From a point of view from someone from 1800,  the ceramics that we use for heat titles would be consider to be stone.

I’m not sure; porcelain was not unknown to those people, neither brick or other terra cotta products.